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The crew heading for the International Space Station on March 26 has passed the qualifying examinations and is ready for the flight. Among the team members cleared for the flight is space tourist Charles Simoniy, who is preparing to make his second space journey, this time costing him $35 million.

The mysterious boom and flash of light that scared residents of Virginia on Sunday night was not a meteor, but exploding space junk from the second stage of a Russian Soyuz rocket falling back to Earth an official with the US Naval Observatory says.

NASA astronaut Michael Fincke has handover control of International Space Station to Russian Gennady Padalka, who will head the crew of six people until October, the Roskosmos space agency has announced.

A vacated space aboard the Soyuz space capsule may allow another space tourist to travel to the International Space Station in September, the Russian Federal Space Agency says. Space Adventures is selecting candidates for the flight.

Astronauts at the International Space Station were told Wednesday that they can now drink water from urine and sweat recycled by a purifying machine. The move is critical to the planned expansion of the ISS crew from three to six people.

The National American Space Agency (NASA) has signed a $306 million deal with Russia’s Roskosmos to continue carrying astronauts to the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz capsules, the agency has said in a statement.

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte has found an out-of-this-world way to celebrate his 50th birthday - blasting off into space. The former fire-eater is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September.

A commander and flight engineer on the International Space Station successfully completed a spacewalk early this morning, to test new Russian-made spacesuits and prepare for the arrival of a new Russian module